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Originally Posted by PKFFW
[...] If you disagree feel free to explain how, without killing me immediately after expressing your idea to me, you could physically stop me from silently walking away and using that idea for whatever I want? I grant you that you could sue me in court but that wouldn't actually stop me unless I decided to comply. You could destroy anything I use your idea to create or you could do all sorts of things after the fact but none of that physically stops me from doing it in the first place. It only, possibly, redresses the issue after the fact.
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I realised there was a blindingly obvious response...
Disney.
Treating copyright as property (as the law currently does) seems to have been working for them. And since pretty much everyone has heard of Mickey Mouse, it seems the legal protections - even if they are after the fact - are working to a sufficient extent that Disney is still in business. It turns out that just because others are aware of the idea or work does not mean they feel they can get away with trying to exploit that idea or work. Wow, imagine that, and we didn't even have to kill them.
Isn't Disney sufficient proof that copyright law does in fact protect IP? All arguments to the contrary would seem to be bundles of cereal stalks tied together in a bipedal shape.